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TOOL HANDLE.

(No Model.)

Patented June 2,1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD IV. JEFFERIS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOURTHS TO IVILLIAM II. MAGOFFIN AND ELMER E. BROWN,

BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

TOOL-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,595, dated June 2, 1891.

Application filed May 26, 1890, Serial No. 353,275. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: preventing the head from slipping in either Be it known that I, RICHARD W. JEFFERIs, direction. The device is thus especially a citizen of the United States, residing at adapted for use when the handle has been 55 Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia broken, and an ordinary cylindrical stick is and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented cerutilized as a handle. I am also enabled to tain new and useful Improvements in Tooleffect an economyin the cost of the tool when Handles, of which the following is a specitithis device is used, as I overcome the necescation, reference being had therein to the acsity of forming an annular shoulder on the 60 companying drawings. handle to prevent the tool-head from slipping IO My invention relates to improvements in inward, thus cheapening the cost of the same. tool-handle fastenings, and has for its object From the foregoing description, taken in the provision of a cheap and simple device connection with the accompanying drawings,

by means of which the tool-head will be effectthe manner of using my device and the ad- 65 ually prevented from flying from the handle vantages to be derived from its use will be when the tool is subjected to hard usage. readily understood. The fasteners are fitted The invention consists in certain novel feain the grooves in the end of the handle, and tures hereinafter described and claimed. the end of the handle and the fastener are In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a .then inserted through the eye of the head, 7c perspective view of a hammer, showing my their outer ends bent down against the outer 2O improved fastening applied thereto. Fig. 2 side of the tool-head, and their inner ends is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. bent against theinner side of the same, there- 3 is a detail view of the end of the handle, by holding it upon the handle. It will be ohand Fig. 4 is a detail view of the fastening. served that the grooves in the handle pro 75 The handle A and the tool-head or hanivide sufficient room for the fasteners, so that 5 mer B maybe of any desired size or preferred they can pass through the eye of the toolform. I desire to state at the outset that head without necessitatinga special construcwhile I have shown a hammer in the drawtion of said eye. The offsets by engaging the ings, it will be readily understood that I do sockets in the handle effectually hold the So not confine myself to that tool, as it will infasteners against slipping, so that the toolvolve no departure from my invention to aphead will be positively held to its place and ply the fastening to any other tool. The end prevented from moving in either direction. of the handle is provided 011 opposite sides The device is very simple in its construction. with the longitudinal grooves O, and diametefficient in its operation, and can be manu- '85 rical recesses or sockets D are formed in the factured at a slight cost. bases of said grooves at intermediate points of Having thus described my invention, what the length thereof, as shown. I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- F designates the fastener, which is prefercut, isably made from stout wire and is provided The combination of the handle provided 90 with an offset G, which engages the recess or with longitudinal grooves and diametrical 40 socket D in the handle, the body or shank of sockets in the bases of said grooves at interthe fastener lying in the groove (3, as clearly mediate points of the length thereof, the toolshown. The end of the fastener extends behead, and the fasteners fitted in the said yond the eye of the tool-head, and after the grooves, having offsets engaging the sockets 95 end of the handle and the fastener are inin the handle and having their ends bent outserted through the eye the projecting end ward closely against the opposite sides of the of the fastener is bent down close upon the tool-head, as set forth. outer side of the tool head, as shown in Figs. 1 In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in and 2. r the presence of two witnesses.

The inner end of the fastener is bent out- RICHARD \V. JEFFERIS. 5o ward against the inner side of the tool-head, \Vitnesses:

while the outer end thereof is bent outward \V. I. RAYMOND, against the outer side of the toOLhead, thus J OHN F. HALBAOH. 

